A conference committee made up of appropriations chairs announced on June 13 that the House and Senate had accepted each other's offers on multiple sections of the fiscal bill and authorized staff to make technical and conforming changes.

The actions, announced at a brief session of the Conference Committee on Appropriations Chairs, covered back‑of‑the‑bill budget provisos and project lists across several policy areas, including PreK‑12 education, higher education, health and human services (health care), agriculture and natural resources, transportation, tourism and economic development, and supplemental funding initiatives. Senator Sarah Hooper and Representative McClure each reported accepting the other chamber's offers on overlapping sets of provisos and implementing language.

The committee's acceptance of cross‑chamber offers was reported without roll‑call votes during the meeting; negotiators described the accepted white‑paper changes and directed staff to formalize agreed language. "The house accepts the senate's offers on higher education budget proviso and back of the bill," Senator Sarah Hooper said while announcing one set of acceptances. The Senate likewise announced acceptance of House offers on other areas earlier in the meeting.

Staff explanations during the session detailed how the offers were presented in spreadsheets: rows highlighted in yellow indicated positions where one chamber had modified or moved to the other chamber's language, and other rows reflected each chamber's retained positions. Tim Elwell and other staff summarized that bump offer spreadsheets show initial House and Senate amounts with the Senate's offer in a far‑right column and highlights marking changes. Staff also noted a joint water project list was part of one offer.

Representative McClure moved to "allow staff to make technical and conforming changes." The motion was adopted "without objection," and the committee recorded the procedural step to permit staff to clean up language and format the agreed text for final clearance. McClure also told attendees there would be an additional conference committee meeting later the same day to clear remaining items and said negotiators hoped "to have one copy hit a desk sometime between 4 and 6:00," adding that members should be prepared to see the work completed by Monday afternoon or evening.

The meeting included brief procedural recesses to allow members and staff to exchange supplemental funding lists and review detailed spreadsheets; no substantive roll‑call votes or amendments were recorded in the transcript of this session. The committee adjourned after the negotiators confirmed offers and approved the two procedural motions reported above.

What happened: the committee announced mutual acceptances of offers across multiple budget provisos and authorized staff to finalize technical edits. What remains: negotiators scheduled an additional session to resolve outstanding items and to finalize the agreed bill text for printing and transmittal to legislators' desks.

The announcements in this session referenced an implementing bill and SB 2508 among the back‑of‑the‑bill materials being negotiated, and staff repeatedly described the mechanics of the spreadsheeted bump offers and the use of highlighted rows to show changes. The transcript does not include dollar totals, specific project line items, or a roll‑call vote tally for any acceptance; those details were not specified during this meeting.